Posted by David McCall on 03/14/06 17:36

"William Davis" <davisbill@mac.com> wrote in message
news:davisbill-D96D5E.10160514032006@news.west.cox.net...
> In article <B8Sdnb8C_p9Q0YvZnZ2dnUVZ_tSdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Todd Bradley <todd@toddbradley.com> wrote:
>
>> William Davis wrote:
>> > I just got back from the Videomaker Expo where I introduced the concept
>> > and got an AMAZING reaction from the attendees
>>
>> I agree it's a cool idea, and sounds very useful. But I wouldn't give
>> yourself credit for inventing the idea (maybe that's not what you meant
>> by "introduced the concept"). I've seen similar DVDs on eBay in the
>> past. Good luck with it!
>>
>>
>> Todd.
>
> Todd,
>
> Where, where, where!!!
>
> Over the past six months that Start Editing Now! has been in development
> I've been searching high and low for anyone doing anything reasonably
> similar to the multi-track movie idea and haven't found ANYTHING so far.
>
> Yeah, a couple of people have noted the �CLUE� movie thing - but that's
> multiple endings on stories - not like my multi-track �do it yourself�
> movies.
>
> I'd LOVE to get a pointer to anyone selling something similar.
>
> Heck, if anyone can send me a URL or trackable pointer to anything truly
> like this, I'll be delighted to send the referring party a free copy of
> SEN.
>
I helped put together a couple projects two decades ago
that was a murder mystery game.

There was one opening segment
chapter 1 had 1 video track and 2 audio tracks
chapter 2 had 2 video tracks and 4 audio tracks
chapter 3 had 4 video tracks and 8 audio tracks
From there you moved into the "clues" section

Ultimately there were 16 different stories with different
members of the cast as the murder and with different motives.

Of course there were no DVDs back then, so we did it all on laserdisc.
Unfortunately laserdisc didn't have any way to program branching,
so the math to figure out what chapter to jump to next had to be done
manually, and the clues were still frames that you jumped to manually.

Actually, there was some programming and branching available on
some machines, but it varied widely from vendor to vendor, and
was mostly only available on commercial machines.

My son converted a couple paths to DVD with branching and that
made for a much more playable game. No buyer yet.

David

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